Werecat!! Scraggly black and grey fun fur and safety eyes and nose. I love safety eyes. I need to start using them more! Unfortunately I only have a few cat eyes left. Lots and lots of round pupils but that would just look so weird on a cat! I'm going to have to expand my horizons.

Bonus! A leopard-y dirty-y bear? This fabric is so strange and I have about a metric ton of it!

It's been too long since I've had a yarn to post!! I spun this up for a dear friend and while I told her she could name it, I got impatient and just chose a name - Common Grackle. (More info on my skein naming here.)

It's 80% Huacaya Alpaca and 20% Mulberry Silk, 2 oz, 83 yards, and from Yarn Geek Fibers. It felt like what I would imagine spinning long hair would feel like! I liked it a lot but it got all over me. I think it came out beautifully though! Just a simple 2-ply but the fiber is so gorgeous!

Have any of you ever attended or participated in the Craftcation Conference? I'm trying to get a feel for what it's like. Did you think it was useful for whatever you were trying to get out of it? What kinds of discussion panels did you see/participate in?

I just wanted to let everyone know that I will soon be leaving my job here at Craftster. Actually, my last day will be this Friday.

On Monday, I'll be starting my new position with the one and only Renegade Craft Fair as their operations manager. I'll be helping run all the day to day stuff and going to all of the fairs, so please feel free to say hi if you find yourself there!!

I'm not sure how much I'll be able to participate on Craftster still although I will stay on as a global moderator. I think once I get past the holiday fair season I'll start peeking my nose back in. (I do have plans to help run another FOC Second Chance swap in January!) Maybe not working on Craftster all day every day will mean I have more time to join discussions in the community and post some projects! A girl can dream, yes?

Honestly, I've sort of been putting off getting all my feelings about this down into words. Craftster has been my home on the internet for over 9 years and my job/the majority of my waking life for over 5. I love this community more than I could ever put into words and it's helped me become the person I am today. All of the absolutely jaw-dropping creations, all of the shared knowledge, all of the friendliness and general community spirit that comes from everyone here just makes this my absolute favorite place to be. I'm not sure how I'll cope not being here all the time! I know I will miss helping make this great community run as smoothly as possible but I'm very excited at this new chapter ahead of me.

Aaaaand now I have to really keep myself from tearing up. See what you guys do to me?

Unfortunately I don't seem to have ANY pictures with just me and sweets and leah, but I'll leave you with a photo of a lot of us moderators at our mod meet-up in Boston in 2008, which is where I was offered this amazing job. (I'm the one with the flash of pink hair!)